Isocyanic Acid, Dimeric Isocyanic Acid Isocyanic acid was prepared in pure form by reaction of KOCN or NaOCN with stearic or oxalic acid in good yield. Identification, characterization and investigation of the thermal stability of HNCO and evidence for a possible existence of "dicyanic acid" have been studied in gas phase, liquid and solid state by vibrational and NMR spectroscopy and mass spectrometry.

The enthalpies of combustion (ΔcombH) of dinitrobiuret (DNB) and diaminotetrazolium nitrate (HDAT‐NO3) were determined experimentally using oxygen bomb calorimetry: ΔcombH(DNB)=5195±200 kJ kg−1, ΔcombH(HDAT‐NO3)=7900±300 kJ kg−1. The standard enthalpies of formation (ΔfH°) of DNB and HDAT‐NO3 were obtained on the basis of quantum chemical computations at the electron‐correlated ab initio MP2 (second order Møller‐Plesset perturbation theory) level of theory using a correlation consistent double‐zeta basis set (cc‐pVTZ): ΔfH°(DNB)=−353 kJ mol−1, −1 829 kJ kg−1; ΔfH°(HDAT‐NO3)=+254 kJ mol−1, +1 558 kJ kg−1. The detonation velocities (D) and detonation pressures (P) of DNB and HDAT‐NO3 were calculated using the empirical equations by Kamlet and Jacobs: D(DNB)=8.66 mm μs−1, P(DNB)=33.9 GPa, D(HDAT‐NO3)=8.77 mm μs−1, P(HDAT‐NO3)=33.3 GPa.

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The structures, energies and vibrational frequencies of H2N-NO2 and H2N-NO have been calculated at HF, MP2(FC), MP2(FULL) and CISD levels of theory using a polarized triple-zeta 6-311+G(d,p) basis augmented with a diffuse function. In addition, the structures and energies were also computed at the QCISD(T)/6-311+G(d,p) level of theory. The structure and bonding in H2N-NO2 and H2N-NO is discussed on the basis of a Natural Bond Orbital Analysis (NBO analysis) and in addition based on qualitative valence bond (VB) considerations.